Tonight I had a dream where sorcerykid was back and threw a party at spawn. But I wasn't at the party because she also added those panels nodes I waited for and so I stayed home finishing building it. ^^

A lot of you have been asking! So I'm happy to announce that by popular request, Just Test Tribute will be making a comeback before the end of the year.

As most of you know, I had to step back from running JT2 due to my mother's declining health. Server administration is, in my opinion, a major undertaking and a significant time commitment. Therefore, I didn't feel it would be fair to leave JT2 online while neglecting to keep it maintained for the benefit of players.

The good news is that my mother is responding favourably to treatment, and her cancer is now in remission. Based on recent talks with her doctor, I feel confident that I will have time to focus on Minetest again.

So expect to be greeted by your friendly neighborhood Nemo each time you log in ;-)

Features galore!Many new features are in the works. Several are already in testing and should be ready for deployment come early January. Here's a quick run-down from my issue tracker:

Of course, this isn't a complete list. And I'm always open to suggestions and feedback!

Engine ImprovementsThe past few months, I took the time to overhaul the Minetest S3 engine with various back-end bug fixes and optimizations in addition to merging important PRs from the official project. There is still more to do, but my goal is to ensure that the server is 5.0 compliant, given the anticipated roll-out of Minetest 5.0 in 2019.

Account Reactivation RequestsNote: When the server launches, all accounts disabled for inactivity since December 2017 will be reactivated. If your account was inactive prior to that time, contact me for reactivation!

sorcerykid wrote:The good news is that my mother is responding favourably to treatment, and her cancer is now in remission.

These are great news! I think it's hard to imagine a better gift for Christmas and the New Year! I wish you both a happy and prosperous New Year, full of strength, love, health, smile and sunshine! Perhaps I am making these wishes too early, it is still a few days before New Year, but it came out somehow... I just feel happy with this news too sorcerykid :))